CYBERCULTURE
Spynet
What you should know about surveillance technology: Big Brother IS Watching YOU.Abacus To The Apple: A Timeline of Significant Events
Bobbi A. Kerlin, PhDAmericans in the Information Age
Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide. Third report in the Falling Through the Net series on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America. Released July 8, 1999.Analog to Digital Photography from ZoneZero
- A New Software Genre: Discussion Management
- Critical Theory of Technology
- Marcuse or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology
- Summary Remarks on My Approach to the Philosophical Study of Technology
- The written world: On the theory and practice of computer conferencing
- From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads
A Brief Look at McLuhan's Theories
Center for Democracy and Technology
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
Computer User Self-Efficacy Scale
The Cyber Snoops. How Internet gumshoes breach personal privacy
Vince Beiser, Maclean's / June 23, 1997The Dark Side of the Chip
Bobbi A. Kerlin, Ph.D.Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
David F. Noble, York University
- Part 1: The Automation of Higher Education, October, 1997
- Part 2: The Coming Battle Over Online Instruction, March,1998
- Part 3: The Bloom Is Off the Rose, November, 1998
- Part 4: Rehearsal for the Revolution, November 1999
Educational Technology: A Critique of Pure Reason
Greg Kearsley. A revised version of this essay was published in Educational Technology Magazine, April/May 1998.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ethics in Computing
Created by Professor Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University, this site is organized into 8 topics including 'basics' - an introduction, privacy, intellectual property, speech and social justice issues, commerce, risks, etc.Ethics Web Sites
From De Montfort University's Center for Computing and Social ResponsibilityVirtual Community: by Howard Rheingold
HyperTextNow: Memex and Beyond
A site devoted to the history and future development of hypertext.The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead
James A. Dewar(The) Information Highway: History, Vision, Issues
Instructional Technology Connections, University of Colorado, Denver
International Society for Technology in Education
Media and Communication Studies
A British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication. The site is organized into sixteen areas, including film studies, media influence, textual analysis, and gender, class, and ethnicity. Several of the links are preformatted searches of the Alta Vista index, providing up-to-date information on media-related topics.MIT's A Day in the Life of Cyberspace
MOO: An Educational Tool
A collection of online resources dealing with MUD (Multi-User Dimension) and MOO (MUD Object Oriented) environments for teaching and learning. There are links to information about the theory behind MOOs and setting up a MOO, as well as FAQs and common MOO commands. If you have no idea what a MOO is, this is a good place to start.New Technology, Old Trap
By Stephen C. Ehrmann, PhDSocial Informatics
Research that examines the social aspects of computerizationTechnological Determinism
By Daniel Chandler, UKTechnology Travesties
A humorous commentary on instructional design, by David Merrill.